I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'..

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better..

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager..

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent..

It's what people create that makes my heart stop..

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education..

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie..

I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred….

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people..

As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it..

Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans….